THE HIMALAYAN TALK: INDIAN GOVERNMENT FOOD SECURITY PROGRAM RISKIER

http://youtu.be/NrcmNEjaN8c
The government of India has announced food security program ahead of elections in 2014. We discussed the issue with Palash Biswas in Kolkata today.
http://youtu.be/NrcmNEjaN8c
Ahead of Elections, India's Cabinet Approves Food Security Program
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By JIM YARDLEY
http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/indias-cabinet-passes-food-security-law/

THE HIMALAYAN TALK: PALASH BISWAS CRITICAL OF BAMCEF LEADERSHIP

[Palash Biswas, one of the BAMCEF leaders and editors for Indian Express spoke to us from Kolkata today and criticized BAMCEF leadership in New Delhi, which according to him, is messing up with Nepalese indigenous peoples also.
He also flayed MP Jay Narayan Prasad Nishad, who recently offered a Puja in his New Delhi home for Narendra Modi's victory in 2014.]

THE HIMALAYAN DISASTER: TRANSNATIONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT MECHANISM A MUST

We talked with Palash Biswas, an editor for Indian Express in Kolkata today also. He urged that there must a transnational disaster management mechanism to avert such scale disaster in the Himalayas.
http://youtu.be/7IzWUpRECJM

THE HIMALAYAN TALK: PALASH BISWAS BLASTS INDIANS THAT CLAIM BUDDHA WAS BORN IN INDIA

THE HIMALAYAN VOICE: PALASH BISWAS DISCUSSES RAM MANDIR

Published on 10 Apr 2013
Palash Biswas spoke to us from Kolkota and shared his views on Visho Hindu Parashid's programme from tomorrow ( April 11, 2013) to build Ram Mandir in disputed Ayodhya.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77cZuBunAGk

THE HIMALAYAN TALK: PALSH BISWAS FLAYS SOUTH ASIAN GOVERNM

Palash Biswas, lashed out those 1% people in the government in New Delhi for failure of delivery and creating hosts of problems everywhere in South Asia.
http://youtu.be/lD2_V7CB2Is

Palash Biswas on BAMCEF UNIFICATION!

THE HIMALAYAN TALK: PALASH BISWAS ON NEPALI SENTIMENT, GORKHALAND, KUMAON AND GARHWAL ETC.and BAMCEF UNIFICATION!
Published on Mar 19, 2013
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Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Indian Express Reports: Punjab to Assam: Writer returns her Padma Shri, another his Akademi "To kill those who stand for truth and justice put us to shame in the eyes of the world and God. In protest, therefore, I return the Padma Shri award", said Tiwana.

"To kill those who stand for truth and justice put us to shame in the eyes of the world and God. In protest, therefore, I return the Padma Shri award", said Tiwana.

Dalip Kaur Tiwana, a novelist and short story writer from Punjabi, announced Tuesday that she is returning her Padma Shri, the country's fourth highest civilian award. Tiwana, 80, is the first to give up a Padma award to express "solidarity with writers who are protesting against increasing cultural intolerance in our society and politics".

Assamese litterateur and journalist Homen Borgohain also returned his Sahitya Akademi award, which he received in 1978 for his novel Pita Putra. He cited the killing of a man in Dadri over rumours of cow slaughter as the trigger, and said he was protesting against the "growing fascist tendency in the country" and "evil forces" that are "trying to hit hard at the core ideology of Indian civilisation and culture".

Tiwana, who received the Padma Shri in 2004 for Literature and Education, is also the recipient of a Sahitya Akademi Award. "I had something big to give up, for a cause I believe in and which is close to my heart, and this is my way of protest. Minorities are being crushed and writers and rationalists are being murdered, and no one is allowed to speak," Tiwana told The Indian Express.

Tiwana, who used teach Punjabi at Patiala's Punjab University and is now a writer-in-residence there, added, "In this land of Gautama Buddha and Guru Nanak Dev, the atrocities committed on the Sikhs in 1984 and on the Muslims currently because of communalism are an utter disgrace to our state and society."

"In the 21st century, we are killing those who stand up for truth; it's a shame in the eyes of god," Tiwana, who received the Akademi award in 1971 for her novel Eho Hamara Jivana (This our life), said. "I laud this form of protest and hope this will make common people think and also give them a voice and remind them that secularism is most important."

Why do I quote Nabarun Bhattacharya so often?

এই মৃত্যু উপত্যকা আমার দেশ নয়!

এই মৃত্যু উপত্যকা আমার দেশ নয়!Nabarun Da declared it in seventies!

Bengal has no courage to raise voice against the fascist racist HIT LIST or the governance of Fascism,I am afraid to speak out.Rest of India follows Nabarunda in creativity as creativity is all about the acts activated to sustain humanity and nature.Reactionaries have taken over the world and Bengal remains the colony!

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The Indian Express - ‎22 hours ago‎

As many as 15 to 20 Konkani writers of Goa Konkani Lekhak Sangh (GKLS) are considering returning their Sahitya Akademi awards to protest against the recent killings of rationalists and writers in the country. On Wednesday, at least 15 recipients of the ...

DailyO - ‎14 hours ago‎

The interview for the original assignment has ended. It is time for coffee which his helper has done a miserable job of. He asks if we want to know the real reason why he returned the Sahitya Akademi award. His pauses are near perfect. He is a major ...

Times of India - ‎20 hours ago‎

I sympathize with writers who express their anguish by returning their Sahitya Akademi awards or quitting their posts there. Dissent with intolerance and protest against imposition of a mono cultural value system by self-appointed moral custodians is ...

Tehelka - ‎2 hours ago‎

It seems Tamil writers have turned a divided lot over the issue of returning honours bestowed on the, by the Sahitya Akademi, as a means of protest, over its alleged failure in protecting the right to expression. While fellow writers across the country ...

NDTV - ‎8 hours ago‎

Stating his reasons for taking such a step, he wrote: "However, my symbolic protest to return theSahitya Akademi award is not only against the Dadri killing but against the growing fascist tendency in the country and against the evil forces trying to ...

Oneindia - ‎5 hours ago‎

New Delhi, Oct 13: Leading writers are now returning the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award to protest against spread of "communal poison" and "rising intolerance" in India. Sahitya AkademiAward is a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India ...

Daily News & Analysis - ‎2 hours ago‎

Punjabi poet Surjit Patar returned his Sahitya Akademi Award on Monday to register his protest against the growing incidents of intolerance and communal violence in the country. Recently, poets Jaswinder and Darshan Buttar, and prose writer Baldev ...

Ballari (Karnataka): Joining the bandwagon of writers and poets protesting "growing intolerance", Kannada writer Prof Rahamat Tarikere has returned his Sahitya Akademi award in protest against the killing of scholar M M Kalburgi and rationalists ...

The Indian Express - ‎12 minutes ago‎

The Sahitya Akademi is India's premier institution of letters, with a stated commitment to "promoting Indian literature throughout the world". The Akademi was established by Jawaharlal Nehru, who was also its first chairperson, and inaugurated on March ...

Financial Express - ‎2 hours ago‎

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Satyapal Singh on Tuesday said it appears to be a 'pre-planned' move by several prominent writers and poets to return their Sahitya Akademi awards, adding that the literary body or the Centre does not have anything ...

The Indian Express - ‎Oct 12, 2015‎

A day after renowned literary critic and activist Professor Ganesh Devy returned the Sahitya Akademi award, noted Gujarati poet Anil Joshi, who was awarded the Akademi award in 1990 for his collection of essays titled, "Statue", on Monday, returned the ...

International Business Times, India Edition - ‎17 hours ago‎

Over the past one week, disgruntled writers and poets across the country have returned the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award to protest the increasing incidents of communal violence in India. Several elite writers and poets have also resigned their ...

Economic Times - ‎22 hours ago‎

NEW DELHI: The Sahitya Akademi has convened an emergency meeting of its executive board — comprising 24 writers representing different Indian languages — on October 23, to discuss the issue of a string of writers returning their Akademi awards in ...

The Indian Express - ‎Oct 12, 2015‎

Established by the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru who was also its first chairperson, theSahitya Akademi is the premier institution of letters in the country. Every year it announcesSahitya Akademi awards for writers in 24 languages. Over the ...

Oneindia - ‎7 hours ago‎

Kolkata, Oct 13: With eminent authors returning Sahitya Akademi awards to protest rising intolerance, union minister Bandaru Dattatreya said it was their individual right and intellectuals were free to act as per their wish in a democracy. "It is their ...

New Delhi: Gujarat-based writer Ganesh Devy, 'Yuva Puraskar'-winning author Aman Sethi and four other eminent writers from Punjab returned their Sahitya Akademi awards on Sunday. Kannada writer Aravind Malagatti resigned from the body's general ...

The Indian Express - ‎Oct 11, 2015‎

Three eminent writers from Punjab, Gurbachan Bhullar, Ajmer Singh Aulakh and Atamjit Singh, on Sunday announced that they were returning their Sahitya Akademi awards, joining the growing protest by litterateurs against "rising intolerance" and the ...

Guwahati: Joining the league of Sahitya Akademi awardees returning their awards in protest against growing intolerance in the country, Assam's litterateur and journalist Homen Borgohain has also decided to return the honour. Writing in a vernacular ...

Business Standard - ‎22 hours ago‎

2) Nayantara Sahgal: Writer Nayantara Sahgal had won the Sahitya Akademi award for her English novel Rich Like Us. She said she would return her award as a sign of protest over the Dadri lynching and the killings of Kalburgi, and activists Narendra ...

Daily News & Analysis - ‎17 hours ago‎

The Sahitya Akademi has decided to convene a special emergency meeting of its executive board on October 23, bringing it forward from its scheduled date in December. There seems to have been an overnight rethink on the issue as, until Sunday evening ...

Financial Express - ‎13 hours ago‎

Two eminent writers GN Devy and Aman Sethi on Sunday announced that they were returning theirSahitya Akademi awards, joining the growing protest by litterateurs over "rising intolerance" and "communal" atmosphere, and the "silence" of the Sahitya ...

Mid-Day - ‎15 hours ago‎

Sahitya Akademi President Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari had said that the institution was committed to the core secular values enshrined in the Constitution of India. Khayal said, "I have decided to return the award. The minorities in the country are ...

Daily News & Analysis - ‎Oct 12, 2015‎

"I support Nayantara Sahgal and the many other writers protesting to the Sahitya Akademi. Alarming times for free expression in India," he tweeted. 88-year-old Sahgal, niece of Jawaharlal Nehru, was among the first to lodge her protest against the ...

Akademi officials said this was the first instance when award-winners were returning their awards. Earlier, there had been instances of authors refusing to accept the Sahitya Akademi award. The 1997 Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy, for example, had ...

Times of India - ‎11 hours ago‎

VADODARA: After tribal activist Ganesh Devy, another Gujarati litterateur poet Anil Joshi returned his Sahitya Akademi Award. Joshi on Monday wrote a letter to Sahitya Akdemi president professor Viswanath Pratap Tiwari informing him about his decision ...

Business Standard - ‎Oct 12, 2015‎

On Monday, 12 more writers announced their decision to return their Sahitya Akademi or other similar awards, taking the total number of litterateurs doing so to 24. Besides, Kannada writer Aravind Malagatti resigned from the Akademi's general council ...

Firstpost - ‎Oct 12, 2015‎

Vadodara: The train of writers returning government-conferred honours on Monday saw city-based author and poet Anil Joshi announce that he will give up his Sahitya Akademi award over the recent killing of rationalist MM Kalburgi and a few others.

The Wire - ‎Oct 11, 2015‎

Eminent writers Gurbachan Bhullar, Ajmer Singh Aulakh and Atamjit Singh from Punjab and GN Devy from Gujarat today announced that they were returning their Sahitya Akademi awards like several other authors including Nayantara Sehgal, Sarah Joseph,